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Apparently, though unproven, at 15:19 on Sunday 10 April 2011, Yann Ormanns |
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did opine thusly: |
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> Subject: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me. |
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> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> |
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> To: Yann Ormanns <yann-ormanns@×××.de> |
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> Date: 2011-04-10 15:17 (+0000) |
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> > Hi, Gentoo. |
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> > When, as a normal user, I type "su", followed, when prompted, by the |
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> > root password, I get the following error message: |
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> > su: Permission denied |
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> > . The return code is 1. I can't glean anything useful from the man |
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> > page. |
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> > Would somebody please tell me what I'm missing. |
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> > Many thanks! |
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> Are you a member of the "wheel"-group? You can check that by executing |
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> "id yourname". If not, execute "usermod -aG wheel yourname". |
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Only root can run that and he can't su to root :-) |
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Log in directly as root on a text console and run it there. |
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If you can't log in as root, try su to root from any user in the wheel group. |
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If that still doesn't work, get out the LiveCD |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |